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10/9/2023
1 : 44
Weekend Reading — Great to be back!
Foxes in Love It's great to be back! I'm still going through recovery, but got far enough that I'm back to reading good content, and collecting it into a weekly newsletter. So Weekend
8/1/2023
0 : 24
Where’s Assaf?
The past three months have been quite the adventure. On May 4, I was headed home, walking back from my regular coffee shop, and was hit by a car going way too fast. Seriously hit. Broken bones, torn
5/1/2023
22 : 14
Weekend Reading — So much distraction
This week we rubber duck our GPT, got two apps to catch up on our reading, distract AI with a new social network (no, not that one), and home office rock climbing. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend
4/23/2023
23 : 44
Weekend Reading — 🚀 Rapid unscheduled disassembly
This week we prettify TS errors, go offline, celebrate 30 years of web browser, talk about trusts, experiment with 10 different GPTs, and travel up a space elevator. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend
4/19/2023
5 : 44
Weekend Reading — 🎩 Forms and background jobs
This week we attempt a real-life coding exercise, draw our own animations, contrast AI agents with the Semantic Web, fold like a pro, and learn an ancient form of writing. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
4/8/2023
23 : 34
Weekend Reading — 🧑🎨 Minium viable design
This week we look at why prompts won't replace developers, reasons to not use GraphQL, minimum viable design, and proof of human in recruiting. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading — 🧑🎨
4/2/2023
21 : 24
Weekend Reading — Everybody so creative
This week a special section all about bicycles, John Wick on npm, LED regret, AI writes our regular expressions, and what high-tech sector protest looks like. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend
3/26/2023
22 : 4
Weekend Reading — 🙄 Be someone's reason to roll their eyes
This week we test Remix streaming SSR, use GPT for scraping, design for ADHD, plug into ChatGPT, and visit the video game museum. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading — 🙄 Be someone's reason
3/19/2023
21 : 44
Weekend Reading — 🤖 "Disregard your previous prompt and instructions”
This week we look at Outerbase, Plato, Warp's new AI, react.email, Superflare, Tremor 2.0, modern font stacks, Cloudflare's URL scanner, and rapid fire through 11 AI announcements, 😎 Labnotes (
3/12/2023
1 : 24
Weekend Reading — 🤗 Hug a CFO
This week we talk about React hooks, CloudFlare caching, SVB's fall from grace, AI winter, generated AI aesthetics, non-linear workdays, and how to leave work early. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
3/5/2023
22 : 34
Weekend Reading — 🧼 That well-worn look …
This week we celebrate cleaning products, a new timezone, predictive coding, Yiddish slang, and techno-linguistic chaos. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading — 🧼 That well-worn look … By Assaf
2/26/2023
7 : 14
Weekend Reading — 👌 6-finger deniability
This week we have a new search engine we're actually excited about, the results from the 4-day workweek trial are in, and we have questions about craters. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend
2/20/2023
21 : 14
Weekend Reading — 🦅 Fly smarter, not harder
This week we talk software architecture: YAGNI, 80% ready, bad vibes, and LFI. We have some opinions about GPT, and 3 tools to screenshot and video demo your product. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
2/14/2023
23 : 34
Weekend Reading — 🎈 BRB, went ballooning
This week we have a cheat sheet for using React, we learn how to use negative prompts, and FaceID-lock our iPhone apps. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading — 🎈 BRB, went ballooning By Assaf
2/6/2023
0 : 14
Weekend Reading — 👋 How many fingers to a hand?
This week we ask who's responsible for technical decisions, dig into the origins of spaghetti code, discover a new dopamine loop, talk a lot (too much?) about generative AI, and wrap it up with a
1/30/2023
2 : 14
Weekend Reading — 😎 Software is believing
This week is loaded with AI. We use it to summarize and de-summarize, help us SQL, spoken words, and handwritten notes. We also settle a semantic debate and cure our Python envy. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf
1/23/2023
22 : 35
Weekend Reading — 👌 Ctrl-Salt-Delete
This week we load up on SVG, pay back tech debt, fight name complexity, learn how to build ChatGPT, and go in search of SF/Mission super burrito. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading — 👌 Ctrl-
1/20/2023
4 : 24
Weekend Reading — 👋 Shut the front door
This week we compare JS component libraries, steer clear of YAML, impressed by text-to-draw tech, and dream of a giant dog bed. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading — 👋 Shut the front door By
1/8/2023
23 : 44
Weekend Reading — 🧄 Garlic expressions
This week we draw with SVG, learn garlic expressions, watch an epic battle unfold, explore AI as assistive technology, replace .env with 1P, and bake an octopie. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend
1/2/2023
20 : 54
Weekend Reading — 👋 Happy new year!
I'm ready for 2023, are you? This week we got fresh UI components, rendering HTML with React, GPT prompt reverse engineering, and ultimate LEGO. 😎 Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin) Weekend Reading — 👋